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Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Birthday: April 28
Events
1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1986 - The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
Births
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
Deaths
1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
Holiday
Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.
Birthday: April 28
Events
1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1986 - The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
Births
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
Deaths
1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
Holiday
Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.